Word: dacha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet Union was never like this." Soviet Army wives were unanimous in their verdict when they viewed the conveniences of ordinary German houses. "I'm never going home unless there is water from the wall and light from the ceiling of my dacha," exclaimed...
Furthermore, the Soviets play up the prestige of their scientists, and provide them with the material comforts of the good life. Kapitza, for example, has a country dacha and two chauffeurs; he said that if he wanted a house in the mountains the Government would gladly build...
...Russians killed these Polish prisoners of war in March 1940. The Russians say that the Germans found the Poles still locked in camps when they reached Smolensk in July 1941, slaughtered them all by the end of September. They say that German Construction Battalion #537, housed in a large Dacha half a mile away, carried out the executions...